antonīms

A modern coinage, meant to be the opposite of sinonīms, with components derived from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”) and ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), with variants that arose in various European languages around 1850-1870. It was borrowed into Latvian and made into a masculine first-declension noun (ending -s), by analogy with sinonīms.

antonīms m (1st declension)

1. antonym (one of two or more linguistic elements with opposed meanings)

   leksiskie antonīmi ― lexical antonyms

   vardam “melns” antonīms ir “balts” ― the antonyms of the word “black” is “white”

   aptaujas lapā bija minēti 43 antonīmi ― in the questionnaire, 43 antonyms were mentioned

• sinonīms

• homonīms